Summary
Starfieldhas released its latest patch for May 2025, providing a helpful quality-of-life improvement that should boost performance on lower-end devices and providing the modding community with a lot more tools to help with its efforts.Starfield’s Creations feature has provided some extra longevity to the space exploration RPG, and Bethesda’s latest move seems aimed at keeping the Creations community well-supplied.
Theofficial Creations Store forStarfieldlaunched in June 2024, nine months after the game’s initial release on Xbox Series X|S and PC. While there was initial backlash to the high prices for mods listed in the online storefront, many players warmed to Creations with the addition of new hab modules, weapons skins, and locations adding to the game’s customization and immersion.
With recent reports thatmodders are losing interest inStarfield, this latest patch, released on May 22, provides the modding community with three attractive features that may draw them back to the game. Perhaps most importantly, Bethesda has increased the maximum size of Creations to 2GB, which lifts a lot of restraints for Creators with particularly hefty projects and allows for the possibility of some game-changing alterations toStarfield. In addition to this improvement, the May update also provides some new icons that Creators can use in building their mods, and the Creations Store has been updated to allow for the bundling of Creations, which could potentially give customers some extra purchasing power in the future. There are also a few bug fixes related to Creations, which fix crashes and loading errors.
In addition to the big improvements to Creations,Starfieldis also catering to players on lower-end devices by offering a new Very Low display setting, which should help improve performance. TheMay update toStarfieldwas testedin beta on Steam earlier in the month, and other notes on performance state that the development teams have resolved an error that was causing frame rate drops when the scanner was used during long gaming sessions. Additionally, the update introduces some new resolutions for graphical presentation.
As usual, the patch notes also contain a log list of bug fixes spread across several categories. Several of these pertain toStarfield’s Shattered Space DLC, and one of the most notable makes Va’ruun Outpost Modules available to players after they have entered the Unity. Players can also enjoy some upgrades toStarfield’s land-based vehicles, as the patch will make it easier for players to exit partially obstructed vehicles and will allow them to deploy at locations other than spaceports and landing pads.
